this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
51 points (100.0% liked)

Fitness

3981 readers
3 users here now

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

This is not necessarily a fitness question persay, but i figured this would be the community to ask. About 3 months ago i started a new job, a factory job, where i'm constantly pushing and lifting tonnes of weight daily. i've gotten used to it, i don't feel nearly as sore as i did when i started, the only thing is how i feel when i wake up.

you see, when i first wake up the first thing i notice is how stiff i am, literally it feels as though each of my individual muscles has turned into cold rubber. And the cracks! every time i move now something or another pops or cracks in any given part of my body. Suffice to say none of this is painful, just... uncomfortable. It's not like they gave me a "how to adapt your body to suddenly doing manual labor 101" pamphlet when i joined, so what exactly should i be doing different? Or is this just a normal phenomenom that i'm not used to?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] okfuskee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Check out this link for a bit of information.

If you don't want to check the link, basically it says to drink water and stretch. But there is a name for it! DOMS